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Craig Carper

Craig Carper is the News Director for 88.9 WCVE Public Radio. Craig studied journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University and has worked in broadcast news since 2001. He’s worked in various capacities covering Virginia politics for WCVE PBS since 2006. For six years starting in 2009 he served as the political reporter for 88.9 WCVE before being promoted to News Director in July of 2015.

Craig served as the host of Capitol Events during the General Assembly Session on WCVE PBS, a daily one-minute update on legislative issues.

In 2012 he conducted an exclusive interview with President Barack Obama. In 2015 he interviewed former President Jimmy Carter.

Craig has contributed over 100 nationally run news stories to NPR and has been featured on the PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff and the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC.

He’s covered 3 Governors, the 2009 and 2013 gubernatorial campaigns, the 2012 and 2014 U.S. Senate races, the 2012 Presidential campaign and in 2014 he provided daily national coverage of the trial of former Governor Bob McDonnell for NPR.

Articles by Craig Carper

Governor Terry McAuliffe included funding Foster care services for transition age youth, those 18-21, in his introduced budget. The House and Senate are now negotiating whether those dollars should stay in.

There are approximately 500 kids who age out of Virginia’s foster care system every year at 18. That’s the highest rate in the nation.

The Senate budget includes 1.9 million in state dollars to match 4 million in available federal funding for these services. The House budget does not.

Today (3/3), Richmond CenterStage officially became the Dominion Arts Center as the performing arts complex and Dominion Resources unveiled it’s new Marquee. The naming rights came with a $5.5 million dollar investment from Dominion.

Tom Farrell, the companies’ President and CEO says the Dominion Arts Center will help continue to sustain Richmond culturally and economically.

Today is Super Tuesday when Virginia and 11 other states will select their picks for the Republican and Democratic Presidential nominees. Yesterday Hillary Clinton made two stops in the Commonwealth to ask for voter’s support.

Clinton told supporters at George Mason University she’ll defend the Affordable Care Act, reduce student debt, work for comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship and expand rights for workers, women, the LGBT and voters.

She says this stands in stark contrast to what Republican candidates are promising to do.

All the candidates have made appearances the state over the past week. Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders rallies were well attended, though Rubio lacks support among the growing anti-establishment movement in the GOP and Sanders has yet to build the same kind of enthusiasm among African-Americans that the Clintons have maintained for years.

Republican Presidential hopeful, Senator Marco Rubio rallied thousands of supporters at James River High School in Midlothian Sunday (2/28) where he discussed his vision for America and took shots at Donald Trump.

Senator Rubio says the 2016 election will help define the direction of the Republican Party and the country for the 21st century.

A February 16th Christopher Newport University Poll showed Trump in the lead among likely GOP voters with 28%, ahead of Rubio with 22%.

Winning in Virginia will be critical to sealing the Democratic nomination for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. That’s what her husband, former President Bill Clinton told a full house at the Hippodrome Theater in Jackson Ward last night (2/24). “We need to win in Virginia. We need every vote in Virginia.”

While making that case last night, the 42nd President spoke of the need to embrace America’s cultural diversity, particularly Muslims and the LGBT community, instead of tearing them down as he said the GOP is doing.